Background Information: Overviews of Research
Oxford Bibliographies Online in Childhood Studies, Social Work, and Psychology include overviews of research, with annotated bibliographies including scholarly books, journals, and research.
- Adoption
- Aggression
- Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive
- Best Interest of the Child
- Child Maltreatment (Childhood Studies)
- Child Maltreatment (Public Health)
- Child Poverty, Rights, and Well-Being
- Child Welfare
- Child Welfare Law in the United States
- Children and Social Policy
- Children of Incarcerated Parents
- Children's Rights
- Coping Processes
- Development, Prenatal
- Developmental Psychology
- Drugs and Behavior
- Education for Children with Autism
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Forensic Social Work
- Foster Care
- Foundlings and Abandoned Children
- History of Childhood in America
- Knowledge Development in Childhood
- Mandated/Non-Voluntary Clients
- Mental Illness: Children
- Orphans
- Parenting Stress
- Refugee and Displaced Children
- Repressed Memories
- Risk Assessment in Child Protection
- Young Carers
(Children as Caregivers)
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Child Welfare resources include databases and indexes of journals, background resources i.e. reference works, such as Oxford Bibliographies Online, with its overview essays and bibliographies.
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Reference Works
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Encyclopedia of Social WorkBackground and bibliographies on topics related to social work, social policy, and related fields.
Subject Guide
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